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Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Health battles heating up

By Steve Dittmer June 15, 2016

In 2014, I was fortunate to speak to Canadian cattle people at the International Livestock Congress in Calgary. I held up a new book, and suggested reading and digesting it, as it held the keys to rescuing our industry from the clutches of 50 years of erroneous dietary-health theory. The book, The Big Fat Surprise: […] Read more

History, Our History

History: Guest editorial by the chairman of the National Council of Canadian Beef Producers

Reprinted from the November 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff October 22, 2015

Guest editorial By George G. Ross, Aden, Alta., chairman, National Council of Canadian Beef Producers The recognition by the Department of National Revenue of permanent herds of livestock as capital investment with the returns from dispersal sales of basic herds treated as return of capital and therefore free of income tax, paves the way for […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Tight numbers a concern for livestock marketers

By Ron Friesen September 14, 2015

The bloom may soon come off the rose for record-high cattle prices as economic indicators in the United States suggest a coming slowdown in consumer beef demand. That was the message from commodity market analyst Jerry Klassen to the Livestock Market Association of Canada’s annual convention in Winnipeg earlier this summer. A roaring bull market […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans, Weather

USDA sees bumper corn, soy crops despite floods

By Mark Weinraub August 12, 2015

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. corn and soybean harvests were pegged above expectations this year as strong yields in areas west of the Mississippi River will make up for problems caused by excessive rains in eastern production states, the government said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast the 2015-16 soybean harvest at 3.916 billion […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

U.S. ag secretary orders update of agency’s animal welfare research strategy

By P.J. Huffstutter January 25, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed agency staff to create and deliver an updated animal welfare strategy plan within 60 days, according to an internal email reviewed by Reuters. The emailed memo from Chavonda Jacobs-Young, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, was sent to all Animal […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Finishers

Wider buffer zone from feedlots recommended

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 24, 2014

The current U.S. recommended buffer zone between cattle feedlots and vegetables may be too narrow, say scientists writing in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. “The high percentages of leafy greens contaminated with E. coli suggest great risk for planting fresh produce 180 m (590 feet) or less from a feedlot,” the investigators write. That […] Read more

Klassen: Feeder market continues to climb

Louis Dreyfus buys oilseed assets from Bunge in Poland and Hungary

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

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Klassen: Feeder market continues to climb

Louis Dreyfus buys oilseed assets from Bunge in Poland and Hungary

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

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Health battles heating up

History: Guest editorial by the chairman of the National Council of Canadian Beef Producers

Tight numbers a concern for livestock marketers

USDA sees bumper corn, soy crops despite floods

U.S. ag secretary orders update of agency’s animal welfare research strategy

Wider buffer zone from feedlots recommended

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